Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...

Ever since Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formalized the concept of cognitive bias in 1972, most empirical evidence has given credence to the claim that our brain is incapable of improving our ...

The goal of any business should be to hire the most qualified person for every job role. Regardless of a person’s age, race, gender, nationality or other protected class, every organization needs to ...

At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...

We all tend to make unconscious judgments about people based on their social identities and the cultural stereotypes that cling to them. But bias can be disastrous for its targets, affecting their ...

As of May 13, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) update indicated an unprecedented surge in the approval of AI-enabled Medical Devices, listing 191 new entries while reaching a total of 882, ...

Learn how hindsight bias shapes investment decisions, affects risk judgment, and discover practical strategies to reduce its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. If you have a brain, you have bias. We all have unconscious ...